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MakerBot spreads its wings It looks like the future of 3D printing is heading skyward—literally. MakerBot’s Thingiverse.com recently hosted the Birdhouse Challenge, wherein more than 160 competitors used the MakerBot Replicator 2 Desktop 3D Printer to make some serious avian swag. Top entries included a birdhouse shaped like the turret of a medieval castle, and another shaped like a weird, futuristic egg. Sure, this might be a strange direction for 3D printing, but as long as it’s not about shotguns, we thing we’ll take the birdhouses. via

You can make a lot of cool stuff on a 3D printer — small statues, duck feet… and many other things eventually. For now, French design student Leo Marius has harnessed the power of 3D printing to make a real SLR camera, and you can too. Continue reading

unellenu 3D printed designs are created by Janelle Dehanne Wilson who is located in Sydney, Australia. Geometric designs and fractal motifs feature in many of the creations. Jewelry, iphone cases, lighting and decorative objects are among the types of products that are available.

Despite the chicken-in-every-pot hype over consumer-level 3-D printers, the technology still has a long way to go to be usable, or useful, for the average Joe. Designing three-dimensional objects on a two-dimensional computer screen is no simple task, especially for those unskilled in computer-assisted design or software. And for most people, there’s no compelling reason to make a unique object from scratch when mass-produced equivalents are cheaper and simpler. Continue reading